I didn't use a started either, and I had activity much earlier than I usually do. pretty excited to spice and keg. I plan on transferring to a secondary after ten days, then holding for three weeks before I keg.
Well, fermentation has been kicking for another 24 hours, no sign of slowing, but a lot of the trub has settled even more and it appears as thought i have closer to 5 gallons of beer again.
Kudos, because I don't think I'd even be smart enough to figure out how to turn that thing on. Can an electrical idiot build that never having soldered anything before?
Looks amazing by the way.
Tuck
It has been about 48 hours after pitching and all that pumpkin that settled is now dancing in the fermenter and my blow off valve is a constant stream of CO2. Not an extreme amount of kreusen yet.
Seems like you can do a practice run on an easy AG and still have time to knock out a Christmas ale. I'm doing the Austin Homebrew mini mash and I'm not sure if it's going to be spiced enough. The spices were thrown in at 50 minutes and I couldn't really taste them in the hydro sample